Ovulation increases flirtation, regardless of the object of desire. Although hormones elevate sex drive during peak fertility, the instinct to breed takes different forms in lesbians than in straight women. Heterosexual women pay more attention to male faces during ovulation, but a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology shows that when lesbians are ovulating, the are faster to identify female faces-but not male ones. In other words, women are wired to look for a partner when it's time to make babies, but sometimes they search using cues that have nothing to do with conception. Research Lucy Johnston says that while the data shed no light on the origins of female homosexuality, they do show that "reproductive forces cannot fully explain the pater of female sexual behavior.
Автор на текстот е Jennifer Garfinkel
Извор: Psychology today, (November/December), page 27
Автор на текстот е Jennifer Garfinkel
Извор: Psychology today, (November/December), page 27
